Introduction Flashcards
What is business bnalysis?
Business analysis is the practice of enabling change in an enterprise by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders.
What does business analysis enable?
Business analysis enables an enterprise to articulate needs and the rationale for change and to design and describe solutions that can deliver value.
Describe business analysis initiatives
Business initiatives can be strategic, tactical or operational
Where can business analysis be performed?
Business analysis may be performed within the boundaries of a project or throughout enterprise evolution and continuous improvement.
What can business analysis be used to understand?
It can be used to understand the current state, to define the future state, and to determine the activities required to move from the current state to the future state.
Who is a Business Analyst?
A BA is any person who performs tasks that are responsible for discovering, synthesizing, and analyzing information from a variety of sources within an enterprise
What is a BA responsible for?
The business analyst is responsible for eliciting actual needs of stakeholders.
What are business analysis activities?
Understanding Enterprise problems and goals. Analyzing needs and solutions. Devising Strategies. Driving change. Facilitating stakeholder collaboration.
What are the BABOK Knowledge Areas?
Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
Elicitation and Collaboration
Requirements Life Cycle Management
Strategy Analysis
Requirements Analysis and Design Definition
Solution Evaluation
What is Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring ?
Describes the tasks that BA’s perform to organize and coordinate the efforts of BA’s and stakeholders. These tasks produce outputs that are used as key inputs and guidelines for other tasks.
What is Elicitation and Collaboration ?
Describes the tasks that BA’s perform to prepare for and conduct elicitation activities and confirm the results obtained.
What is Requirements Life Cycle Management?
Describes the tasks that BA’s perform in order to manage and maintain requirements and design information from inception to retirement.
What is Strategy Analysis ?
Describes the business analysis work that must be performed to collaborate with stakeholders in order to identify a need of strategic or tactical importance ( that business need), enable the enterprise to address that need, and align the resulting strategy for the change with higher- and lower level strategies.
What is Requirements Analysis and Design Definition ?
Describes the tasks that BA’s perform to structure and organize requirements discovered during elicitation activities, specify model requirements and designs, validate and verify information, identify solutions options that meet business needs, and estimate the potential value that could be realized for each solution option.
What is Solution Evaluation?
Describes the tasks that business analysts perform to assess the performance of and value derived by a solution in use by the enterprise, and to recommend removal o barriers or constraints that prevent the full realization of the value.
What is a Task?
A task is a discreet piece of work that may be performed as part of business analysis.
In what order are tasks performed?
Task may be performed in any order, as long as the necessary inputs to a task are present
In what way are tasks presented?
Purpose Description Inputs Elements Guideline & Tools Techniques Stakeholders Outputs
What is the Purpose of a task?
The purpose section provides a short description of the reason for a BA to perform the task, and the value created through performing the task.
What is the Description for a task?
The description section explains in greater detail regarding what the task is, why it is performed, and what it should accomplish
What are the inputs for a task?
The inputs section lists inputs for the task
Inputs are information consumed or transformed to produce an output, and represent the information necessary for a task to begin.
What are the Elements for a task?
The Elements section describe the key concepts that are needed to understand how to perform the task.
Elements are not mandatory as part of performing a task, and their usage might depend upon the business analysis approach.
What are the Guideline & Tools for a task?
The Guidelines and Tools section lists resources that are required ti transform the input into an output.
A guideline provides instructions or descriptions on why or how to understand a task.
A tool is something used to understand a task.
What are the Techniques for a task?
The techniques section lists the techniques that can be used to perform the business analysis task.
What are the Stakeholders for a task?
The stakeholders section is composed of a generic list of stakeholders who are likely to participate in performing that task or who will be affected by it .
What are the Outputs for a task?
The outputs section describes the results produced by performing a task.
Outputs are created, transformed, or changed in state as a result of the successful completion of a task.
An output may be a deliverable or be part of a larger deliverable.
